Originally Posted by 55/Rad
Originally Posted by cyclintom
Of course it doesn't matter who is at fault when a cyclist is injured but the fact remains that you have about half the chance of being injured or killed on your bicycle as you do in your car...
Interesting claim. Can you substantiate this? I'm interested in interpreting the language of this myself. Is it based on sheer number of accidents or actual case by case studies?
yeah, I'd like to see some references for that. From what I can gather from the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics data:
42,643 total traffic fatalities in 2003
622 cyclists killed
What we're missing is miles-per-person per year on cars vs. cyclists. Then we can correlate that with the fatality numbers to really know the relative risk of driving vs. biking.
anyway, wishing you the best Dave, get well soon.